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abacist 'ab uh sist

abacus 'ab uh kuhss abaci 'ab uh sigh or abacuses 'ab uh kuhss uhs

Edwin A. Abbot 1838-1926 'ed wuhn 'ab uht

Niels Henrik Abel 1802-29 nils 'hen rik 'ah buhl (roll the r)

Abelian uh 'beel yuhn

abscissa ab 'sis suh

absolute 'ab suh loot

abundant uh 'buhn duhnt

acceleration ak 'sil uh 'ray shun

Achilles uh 'ki leez

W. Ackerman ? ak uhr muhn

Acta Mathematica 'ahk tah maht he mah 'tee kah

Acta Eruditorum 'ahk tah ay roo dee 'toh rum

acute uh 'kyoot

John Quincy Adams

1767-1848 jahn 'kwint see ad uhms

add ad

addend 'a dend

addition uh 'di shuhn

additive 'ad uh tiv

ad infinitum ad in fuh 'night uhm Latin: ahd ihn fee 'nee tum

adjacent uh 'jay suhnt

Leonard Adleman fl. 1977

Alfred Adler ? 'al fred 'ahd luhr

Ad locus planos et solidos isagoge (Fermat) ahd 'loh kuhs 'plahn ohs et 'soh lih duhs ihs ah 'goh ge

affine a 'fyn

a fortiori ah for tee 'oh ree

Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718-99 'mah ree ah ,gah ay 'tah nah an 'yay zee aha (noun) ah 'hah

Ahmes seventeenth century B.C. 'ah mess or 'ah meez Ahmes Papyrus 'ah mess puh 'py ruhs

Alabama al uh 'bam uh

al-Biruni 973-1048 ,al bee 'roo nee (Abu ar-Rayhan Muhammed ibn Ahmad al-Biruni)

Alcuin of York fl.c775 'al kwin yohrk

Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717-83 zhahn luh rohN dah lahN ber

aleph 'ah ,lif aleph null 'ah ,lef nuhl (also aleph naught, aleph nought, aleph zero) ( naht, naht, 'zee ,roh)

John Alexander fl. 1928 al eg 'zan duhr

algebra 'al juh bruh

Algebra (Bombelli)

algebraic al juh 'bray ik

algebraist al ju 'bray ist

algorist 'al guh rist

algorithm 'al guh rith uhm

Algorithmi de numero Indorum (al-Khwarizmi)

aliquant 'al uh kwahnt

aliquot 'al uh kwaht

Al-jabr wa'l muqabalah (al-Khwarizmi)

al-Kash of Samarkand fl. 1424

Mohammed ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi c800-c850 al khwahr 'iz mee (also al-Khowarizime) (ahl KHoh wah reez me)

allometry uh 'lahm uh tree

Almagest (Ptolomy) 'al muh jest

al-Mamun 786-833 al mah 'moon (also al-Mamoun)

alpha 'al fuh

alphameric ,al fuh 'mehr ik

alphanumeric ,al fuh ,nu 'mehr ik

amicable 'am uh kuh bel amicable numbers 'am uh kuh bel 'nuhm buhrz

André Marie Ampère 1775-1836 ahN dray maw ree ahN 'pair

ampere 'am pir

analysis uh 'nal us suhs

analytic ,an uhl 'id ik

analytical engine ,an uhl 'id ik uhl 'en juhn

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae ?500-428 an ak 'sag uh ruhs kluh 'zahm uh nee

Anaximander of Miletus c610- c545 an 'ak si 'man dur my 'lee tuhs

George Andrews

angle 'a[ng] guhl

Anders Jones Ångström 1814-74 'an duhsh 'yoo nahs 'aw[ng] str[oe]m English: 'a[ng] struhm

angstrom 'a[ng] struhm (also Angstrom, ångstrom)

annulus 'an yuh luhss

antecedent 'an tuh ,seed uhnt

antiderivative ,an ti di ,riv uhd iv

Antikythera ,an ti ki 'theer uh

antilogarithm an ti 'lahg uh rith uhm

François Apéry fl. 1984

aphelion uh 'feel yun

Petrus Apianus 1501-52 ap i 'ay nuhs or ay pi 'ay nuhs German: ah pee 'ah nus apogee 'ap ah jee

Apollonius of Perga (also Perge) c262-c200 a paw 'loh nee uhs 'per guh (perj)

a posteriori ah 'paw ste ree 'oh ree

apothecary uh 'pawth uh kair ee

apothem 'ap uh them

Kenneth Appel 1932-

apportion uh 'pohr shuhn

approval uh 'proo vuhl

approximate (adjective) uh 'prahk suh mit

approximate (verb) uh 'prahk suh mayt

approximation uh ,prahk suh may shuhn

a priori ,ah pree 'oh ree

Arabic numerals 'air uh bik 'noom ruhls

Domïnique François Jean Arago 1786-1853 daw mee neek zhahn ah rah goh English: 'ar uh ,goh arbelos

arc ahrk

Archimedes of Syracuse c287-12 ahr ki 'mee deez 'sir uh kyooz

Archimedian ahr kuh 'mee dee ahn

Archytas of Tarentum 428-365 ahr 'ky tuhs tuh 'ren tuhm

are (SI unit) ayr

area 'ar ee uh

Jean Robert Argand 1768-1822 ahr gahN

Aristarchus of Samos c310-c250 ar i 'stahr kuhs 'say mahs

Aristotelian ar ,iss tah ,teel yan

Aristotle 384-22 'ar uh stahtuhl

arithmetic (noun) uh 'rith muh ,tik

arithmetic (adjective) ,a rith ,med ik

Arithmetica (Diophantus)

Vladimir Arnold fl. 1960

array uh 'ray

Kenneth Arrow fl. 1952

Richard Askey as kee

Ars Conjectandi (Jakob Bernoulli)

Ars Magna (Cardano) (Artis magne sive de regulis algebraicis)

Arya-Bhata (or Aryabhata) ?476-530 'ahr yuh 'bhut

Aschauliche Geometric (Hilbert and Cohn-Vossen)

astragalus as 'truhg uh luhs

astragali as 'truhg uh lye

astroid 'as troyd

asymmetric ay suh 'me trik

asymptote 'a sim toht

asymptotic ,a sim 'tah tik

Derek Atkins fl. 1994

Attalus c269-197 'a tuh luhs

atto- 'a ,toh

attractor uh 'trak tuhr strange attractor straynj uh 'trak tuhr

augend 'aw jend

St. Augustine 354-450 saynt 'aw gus teen

average 'av rij

avoirdupois ,a vuhr duh 'poyz c.f. Galois

axes (plural of axis) 'ak seez

axiom 'ak see uhm

axiomatic 'ak see uhm 'a tik

axis 'ak suhss

Hannah Ayscough'as koo